Lumber

Lumber Division

Pan Pac Lumber is the largest producer of appearance grade lumber in New Zealand and is the largest exporter to Asia of appearance grade product.

Lumber is produced at both the Whirinaki site in Hawke's Bay and the subsidiary company at Milburn, Otago.

The production and processing plant utilises latest technology to ensure world class quality and service.

Whirinaki Site – Hawke's Bay

Producing 430,000 m3 per annum of green sawn output from pruned and sawlogs. Utility quality corewood is sold green and the higher quality outerwood is kiln dried before grading, packaging and despatching.

Milburn Site – Otago

An initial production of 50,000 m3 per annum of green sawn output will build to 100,000 m3. Processing will be small diameter sawlogs. Utility quality corewood is sold green sawn with the outerwood kiln dried.

Technology

Pan Pac incorporates an extremely high level of technology in the production and processing of all our products.

In the sawmill, we use optimisation scanning as well as size and length control.

In the kilns, the latest available technology is used for control of the drying and reconditioning process.

In the drymill, automated grade scanning is undertaken to produce a consistent grade and quality.

Shipping

Shipping is available to most markets directly through the Port of Napier, located 20 kms from the Hawke's Bay plant, and through Port Chalmers in Dunedin from the Milburn plant.

Shipping for green product can be by breakbulk or containerised and all kiln dried product is exported by container.

Markets

At Pan Pac, we use a variety of distribution arrangements that range from direct sales to end user manufacturers; sales through third party importers, distributors and wholesalers; and sales through agents in some countries.

The Pan Pac Lumber philosophy is to build lasting and meaningful relationships with key customers. To give these relationships a solid foundation, we make sure the mutual understandings of the business requirements are met, and jointly developed further.

Products

Pan Pac Lumber offers a range of qualities from high end clear grades through to Industrial grades.

Each grade is developed to be suitable for different end use applications.

The typical end uses range from high quality mouldings, door and window components, remanufactured building materials (such as weatherboards and facias), solid furniture manufacture, pallets and packaging for a variety of produce.

Pan Pac has also developed a new product called Duradia, which is a Thermally Modified Timber (TMT).